ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a hermeneutic analysis of the phenomenon of death will be undertaken. Death is a universal experience of the human condition; however, in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease can reveal new social processes that may transform society’s attitude to death. These reflections aim to answer how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect people’s attitude to death and if it encourages or distances them from searching for answers to existential questions. This the first modest attempt to present social phenomena in the perspective of the hermeneutics of death with regards to possible changes in social awareness and identity in the ‘COVID-19 era’.
